Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 14:59:40 -0600 From: "G. Carter" gcarter2000@gmail.com Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Importing Content To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Hi: Where can I find information on importing content into my Wiki? Thanks
Hi and welcome, G. Carter,
It depends on the content.
I import Microsoft Word documents with http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Word2MediaWikiPlus which converts documents and pictures and facilitates uploading both, though it's for cut-and-paste, one document at a time. It took me ~3 hours to clean up, convert and upload ~500,000 words in ~30 long documents.
Other documents require hand schmoozing, though I'm planning to subcontract (six figures?) mass conversion of large quantities of legacy documents in DOC, PDF and other formats, like PPT, XLS and so on, and my goal is NOT mere one-time conversion but a useful ongoing conversion tool for new documents, AND converting from Wiki TO other formats (hence the big price tag!).
Or, do you mean import from an existing Wiki into a new Wiki?
Tell us more - what is your exact situation, what are your resources and skill set? Also, please tell us where you searched and what you searched for and what results you've found so far, that would help reduce out guesswork a great deal.
Peter Blaise, Wiki-on-WOS-lover! (the ONLY Wiki that's worked for me so far!)